Walton, S;
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and community in Milan and beyond.
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Ageing with Smartphones.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
‘Who am I at this (st)age? Where am I and where should I be, and how and where should I live?’ These questions, which individuals ask themselves throughout their lives, are among the central themes of this book, which presents an anthropological account of the everyday experiences of age and ageing in an inner-city neighbourhood in Milan, and in places and spaces beyond. Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy explores ageing and digital technologies amidst a backdrop of rapid global technological innovation, including mHealth (mobile health) and smart cities, and a number of wider socio-economic and technological transformations that have brought about significant changes in how people live, work and retire, and how they communicate and care for each other. Based on 16 months of urban digital ethnographic research in Milan, the smartphone is shown to be a ‘constant companion’ in, of and for contemporary life. It accompanies people throughout the day and night, and through individual and collective experiences of movement, change and rupture. Smartphone practices tap into and reflect the moral anxieties of the present moment, while posing questions related to life values and purpose, identities and belonging, privacy and sociability. Through her extensive investigation, Shireen Walton argues that ageing with smartphones in this contemporary urban Italian context is about living with ambiguity, change and contradiction, as well as developing curiosities about a changing world, our changing selves, and changing relationships with and to others. Ageing with smartphones is about figuring out how best to live together, differently.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and community in Milan and beyond |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787359710 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/ 111.9781787359710 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2021 Images © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2021 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non- commercial Non- derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY- NC- ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non- commercial use provided author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Walton, S. 2021. Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and community in Milan and beyond. London: UCL Press. https:// doi.org/ 10.14324/ 111.9781787359710 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http:// creativecommons.org/ licenses/ Any third- party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third- party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | ethnography, smartphones, ageing, anthropology, Italy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126968 |
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